Adding CD's to the show
 

I want to add some original artists songs to my show at times when I need to spark the audience up a bit with dance music and such. How do I do this and print my own personal songbook for my own reference when I want to do this. I tried and it seemed to make a kma file also (dont need lyrics for dance music just for audience) and merges it into my songbook and I do not want this. I appreciate your input and help.

Adding CD's to show
 

I have a folder of MP3 dance music with original artist singing on my hard drive. I use the Hoster Menu to add an audio track to a playlist of only original dance music and save it. I use it every show, continually adding dance music to the playlist. Saves time to make a playlist, just bring it up as you would a karaoke playlist.
muzicman:g :g

does it add to the karaoke playlist like mine did? How do I keep it from doing that?

Sherita,
I use a second program to run my mp3's but you can do this. Put all of the MP3's you use for your show into a folder (you can put folders in this folder if you want to make catagories for your MP3's) and load them into Hoster using the "Audio" button in "Add Track" section of the program at the top left of the program. This will add the MP3 to your present playlist.

I think musicman makes a playlist all of his mp3's only then saves it as a Playlist. Playlists are .hst files. When he wants to play MP3's he opens this playlist (.hts file). When he's ready to go back to Karaoke he opens his working playlist. (Hoster saves your working playlist as the def001.hst. Of course you can name your playlist anything you want. :w )

I hope this helps!

Jim :g

Adding CD's to hoster
 

Jim, Thanks for explaining it a little better than i did. I don't mix the mp3 with other hoster files and save it as "BreakMusic" for my own identity.
Hope this helps.
muzicman

ok let me see if I have this correct. I put the cd into the external drive and go to audio and make a folder called breakmusic and save it there? Then print myself a songbook for my own use for breakmusic and when I want to play it I just hit audio and put the id in and music starts? This hoster is a little confusing to me because I do not know about wav,kma and blaah blaah. I appreciate the lenghthy details from you pro's, you have made this easier for me- I dont know If I could do it without you.... No I know I couldn't do it without this support.

1. You have to convert your CD's into MP3 files THEN work with the MP3s. You need to use a program that "Rips" CDs tracks (I think you can do this with Windows Media Player). This will take your CD tracks and make each track an MP3.

2. Hoster only makes a songbook of your karaoke KMA files. You will have to make your break music songbook using a different program.


Jim :g

One of the new features in Hoster 4.00x will allow converting audio only .mp3, .wma and .wav files into KMA files (in the Import hard drive files screen), and adding them into your Songs Database. Then, you can search, add, etc. these (and Video files also) just as your Karaoke KMA files now.

We'll modify the Prepare Songbook code so you can select to create a Songbook with or without the Audio and/or Video songs. Then, you could create you a separate Songbook with ALL your songs, or heck, just use the Search dialog and find them. That'll be much faster than you trying to manually look them up. :w

Too Cool! :c

Jim :g